Our Team

The Early Days Collaboration

Early Days is being developed by a partnership of Australian organisations with expertise in Autism, parenting and meeting the diverse needs of Australian families. They are:

Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, LaTrobe University
Division of Psychology, School of Health Sciences, RMIT University
Faculty of Education, Monash University
Autism Victoria
Advocacy, Disability, Ethnicity, Community (ADEC)
Family Action Centre University of Newcastle
Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC)

Members of the Early Days Collaboration have constituted a Project Board that will oversee project development and implementation. The project will also be supported in project implementation by the Early Days Providers Advisory Group.

Program organisation

The Parenting Research Centre (PRC) is the Collaboration’s lead agency and the National Coordinator of Early Days. PRC is Australia’s only national independent, not-for-profit organisation with a singular focus on parenting. It has considerable experience in developing parenting education and support programs and coordinating national parent support initiatives designed to support parents of children who have complex needs, including children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder; for example, the Signposts Building for Better Behaviour and the MyTime programs.

PRC is also part of the Raising Children Network consortium which provides the national parenting information website funded by the Australian Government. The Raising Children website includes a range of new information resources for parents of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The Senior Consultant to the Early Days is Amanda Golding, who has extensive knowledge of the Australian Autism community and the many challenges faced by parents and professionals.

Our Collaboration partnership is organised into the following roles and functions:

Early Days is part of the Australian Government Helping Children with Autism package.

Find out more about other parts of this package. Click on the links below.

Information for Parents

Autism Advisors

PlayConnect

Positive Partnerships

Parenting Research Centre - raising children well

Australian Government - Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Parenting Research Centre is the Early Days National Coordinator